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Osinbajo tells Religious groups to use their powers to stop Nigeria’s Division

Nigeria’s Vice
President, Yemi Osinbajo has charged religious bodies and other relevant
stakeholders in the project One Nigeria to leverage on their influence to purge
divisive groups and their actions from the country, Owojela’s Blog reports.

He also
reassured every Nigerian not to panic but to live freely in any part of the
country without fear of molestation.

The
assurance was coming on the heel of growing tension in the country, barely 24
hour to the expiration of the October 1 quit notice issued by the coalition of
Arewa youth groups.

Osinbajo,
who was speaking at the public lecture to mark the 57th independence
anniversary of Nigeria organised by the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic
Affairs (NSCIA) in Abuja, reiterated the government’s resolve to achieving a
just and equitable society.

Represented
by the Minister of Mine and Steel, Kayode Fayemi, the VP explained that in a
society like Nigeria, there was bound to be differences, “therefore, we should
build on those things that bind us together.”

His words:
“Without a doubt we are marking our independence anniversary this year during
period of challenges on our unity as a country. In recent time the federal
government had to take far reaching measure to address potential threat on the
well being of our republic.

“Nigeria is
a vastly plural society with the population of close to 200 million creating
and enterprising people consisting over 250 distinct ethnic nationalities and
spread over and extensive land mark.

“We have
challenges but there is nothing compare with love that the God had blessed us
with, I believe our challenges are not insurmountable on the road to building a
strong and united Federal Republic. We have all that it takes to turn our
diversity to strength and our large population to be seeing as an opportunity
rather than a problem.

“Managing
our diversity and differences and our large population to make it work to our
advantage as a country is a really challenge before us. We can follow the
example of others with similar composition and achieve sustainable peace and
development in the midst of our diversity.

“Even in
personal relationship, at the family and community levels, there is bound to be
diversity of opinions. There is no way we can avoid having differences as a
country, so, the fact that we have differences is not the main problem,
regardless of how these differences are reported in the traditional and social
media.

“This is why
our administration will continue to enlarge the spaces for dialogue as we
believe it is only by continuously engaging that we can deepen mutual trust and
understanding among the different tribes and religions in our country.

“Stakeholder
groups such as the supreme council for Islamic affairs have a responsibility of
leveraging your influence to continue to condemn the divisive directorates and
actions in the country. In our religious gathering as the voices of reason and
truth, we must influence our children to see our country’s diversity.

“We have to
reinforce that the ties that bind us together are more than those that seek to
tear us apart. Our goal is to achieve a just and equitable society, where every
individual can pursue and achieve his or her own God given potentials
regardless of either age, ethnicity , religion, physical-ability , heath
status, economic circumstances among others.

“We continue
to assure every Nigerian that we are committed to upholding the peace and unity
of our great country and that every Nigerian can continue to live freely in any
part of this country without fear or hindrance.”

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government through the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has apologised
to Air Peace Airlines and its passengers after a herd of cattle strayed onto
the runway of Akure Airport in Ondo state.

Nigerian
football star Victor Moses scored on his 209th Premier League appearance as
Chelsea put behind them their recent struggles by thrashing West Bromwich
Albion 3-0 at the Stamford Bridge on Monday.

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Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie has
responded to the claims that the Tsaigumi commissioned in Kaduna during the
week, was first launched by ex-president Goodluck Jonathan in 2013.